Exploring the historical imagination: literacy, experience and life writing
Join this event to explore the practice of literacy and learning in diverse settings.
Exploring the historical imagination: literacy, experience and life writing
14 Mar 2023, 17:45 – 19:30
This event will explore the complex nature of fact and fiction, literacy and experience, historical sources and the use of imagination as a means of understanding social change by looking at Ursula Howard's new book, Bessie Quinn, Survivor Spirit.
This session will include presentations from recent research projects which have examined the practice of literacy and learning in diverse settings. It will feature three presentations:
- ‘Unlikely journeys: adversity, agency and change in a 19th century Irish family’ by Ursula Howard
- 'Adults reading aloud: memory, voice, transformation' by Sam Duncan
- ‘Children’s writing in the 1960s and 1970s – experience, imagination and agency’ by Tom Woodin
This event will be particularly useful for anyone with an interest in literacy education, policy and research.
No registration required.
ILC seminar series
The International Literacy Centre (ILC) hosts a termly seminar series where researchers, practitioners, and those with an interest in literacy education, policy, and practice across the lifespan can come together to discuss current issues in the field. The seminars are free and open to the general public.
Related links
Ursula Howard
Former Visiting Professorial Fellow and Director
the NRDC (National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy & Numeracy)